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PEANUT ROASTER. No. 337,952. Patented Mar; 16, 1886.

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ATENT FFICEQ ISRAEL HICKS, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

PEANUT-ROASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,952, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed September 24, 1885. Serial No. 177,993.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, ISRAEL HICKS, of Youkers, in the county of W'estchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Peanut-Roasters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and compact peanut-roaster, wherein provision is afforded for the ready escape of vapor and moisture from the peanuts while in process of roasting.

The invention consists in novel combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of a roaster embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a trans verse section upon the plane of the dotted line mm, Fig. 1, looking toward the left hand thereof; and Fig. 3 is a similar section upon the plane of the dotted line y y, Fig. 1, looking toward the right hand of said figure.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A designates a central tubular shaft, which is supported in bearings a, and is, by means of collars a, or otherwise, held against lengthwise movement. This shaft consists of a tube or pipe, and rotary motion may be imparted to it by means of a driving-belt passing around a pulley, a, fast upon it.

B designates the cylinder or rotary chamher which constitutes the receptacle for the peanuts to be roasted, and G designates a jacket or casing which incloses the cylinder B, and is stationary. \Vhen the roaster is in use, the cylinder B is within the jacket or casing C, and the peanuts which it contains are heated by means of burners b, which are intended to consume a mixture of gas and air, the gas being supplied to them by a pipe, 12. These burners may be arranged in two rows, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the cylinder or rotary receptacle B,l being immediately over them, is subjected to great heat, and the peanuts contained in it speedily roasted.

The casing or jacket 0 is divided just above the cylinder B by a horizontal partition, 0, thereby forming in the top of the jacket or casing a chamber or compartment, 0, which is provided with a door, 0 for placing pea- (No model.)

nuts within such upper chamber, 0, where they will be kept warm by the waste heat from the burners b, which perform the roasting. The cylinder or rotary receptacle B has at one side a sliding door, B, and at the front of the jacket or casing C are doors 0, which may be opened to permit the cylinder or rotary receptacle B to be shoved into or re moved from the casing or jacket 0 along the shaft A. The cylinder or receptacle B is not permanently fixed upon the shaft A, but is free to slide along, and is locked thereto, when in operation, by a clutch, which may consist of a lug or ear, d, upon the shaft, receiving a pin, (1, upon the cylinder or rotary receptacle B.

W'hon the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the pin d engages with the perforated lug or car cl, and the cylinder receives rotary motion from the shaft A, to keep the peanuts therein from burning. When the doors 0" are opened, the cylinder B can be readily slid along the shaft A, so as to bring it entirely outside the casing or jacket O,as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the peanuts may then be introduced into the cylinder and removed therefrom through the door B. That portion of the tubular shaft A which is within the cylinder or receptacle B when the latter is in operation is perforated with numerous holes, 9, and while the peanuts are being roasted the vapor and steam produced can readily escape from the cylinder B through the perforations g and shaft A.

It is advantageous to have the cylinder or rotary receptacle B locked to the shaft A by means of a clutch, with which the cylinder engages when shoved into the casing, and from which the cylinder will automatically disengage itself when withdrawn from the casing, because then the cylinder may be freely turned on the shaft when it is withdrawn from the casing, and without necessitating the turning of the shaft.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a casing, 0, containing heating-burners, of a hollow rotary shaft, A, having that portion which is within the casing perforated, and bearings preventing the lengthwise movement of the shaft, the eylinder' B, free to slide on the shaft to move it moved from the casing, substantially as hereinto and out of the casing, and a clutch fixed in described. on the shaft, and into and out of engagement with which the cylinder is moved by sliding 5 it upon the shaft, whereby the cylinder is Witnesses:

locked to the shaft when slid within the eas- CHANDLER HALL, ing, and free to turn on the shaft when re- FREDK. HAYNEs.

ISRAEL HICKS. 

